Ongoing chaos at Railway also risks life at level crossings
EIGHTY-FIVE per cent of the level crossings and the rail gates are almost unguarded. Not only that, there is no proper traffic signal and modern...
Editorial
Misinformation must not deter use of the vaccine
WITH the spread of misinformation about health, fitness and diets, people are in risk of public health as they follow misleading information in social media....
Discomfort With House Rent Control Act
Shahriar Islam Shovon :On March 20, some students locked their rented house in the capital due to unwanted vacation to halt the spread of coronavirus...
Reminisce The Martyrs Of 1971
Dr Mohammad Didare Alam Muhsin :After a long and bloody nine-month war, the Pak aggressors were finally forced to surrender on 16 December 1971 in...
Marine Fisheries Act to facilitate duty officers
THE Bangladesh Marine Fisheries Association (BMFA) and the Marine White Fish Trawler Owners Association (MWFTOA) have demanded amendments to the newly enacted Marine Fisheries Act-2020,...
Air Pollution
Professor Dr. Ahmad Kamruzzaman Majumder :Air pollution is one of the regulators for bringing Dhaka down to an uninhabitable city. However, various scientific studies in...
Moral Decay
Md. Azgar Ali :We, as a member of global-society, need a system of morals and values in place. We have effect on others, and others...
Education has no importance to the government, Bangladesh ranked lowest in higher education
BANGLADESH ranked lowest in South Asian countries in the higher education sector and worst performer in global knowledge competence. Global Knowledge Index 2020, brought by...
Another stimulus package for RMG sector
THE government is planning to roll out another stimulus scheme against the looming second wave of Covid-19 this winter although almost half of the Tk...
Together … Now Let’s Wake Up Against Violence, Rape
Sumit Banik :In today’s world, equality between men and women is one of the ways to build a modern and prosperous state. There is an...
Enough Educated But Very Less ‘Well-Educated’
M A Hossain :On 28 November ’20, a 17 days old infant’s dead body was found in the pond at Bagerhat in Bangladesh. Latter on...
Your budget — you implement it, but keep quiet about corruption
LAWMAKERS at a virtual discussion on Wednesday suggested adopting strategies in the eighth Five Year Plan (FYP) to reduce inequality and create skilled human resources....